Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

Crone said:

@a_skeleton_03 Void

Any idea guys why Sonarr won't pick up a torrent that I manually queued? It downloaded it, and it's in the folder that should be checked for completed downloads, but it's not. Just sits there. The folder I download torrents too is different than the folder SABnzbd puts completed files in. If I manually import the show, through the wanted tab, it'll then parse them and move them, but then it deletes the files, so then it fucks up my seeding, even though I have hard links turned on, but that apparently only works if the completed download handler does it, and not through the manual process.

wtf, I want sickbeard back.

Maybe I should wipe both drives, and turn them into a dynamic drive so that the system seems them both as just 1 big drive, that way I don't have multiple drives that I'm storing everything on? I don't know.

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I'm not understanding all of this, particularly

It downloaded it, and it's in the folder that should be checked for completed downloads, but it's not. Just sits there.

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Is it in the folder or not?

There's no real point in making it one big drive since I'm assuming you are moving the files to series folders anyway, and moving them to a folder or moving them to a different drive makes no difference in the big picture, you still moved them.

Detail the steps you're taking when it works normally, and the steps you're taking when doing this. As in, which folder each step goes to (.torrent file, TV show file, etc.). Be as detailed as possible. Otherwise, I don't know that I'll be able to help because your setup could be completely different than mine. Not to mention, I have a seedbox so I only download a copy of it to my local computer, it stays up on the seedbox forever no matter what I do locally. So I need to see what you are doing, I can't just guess.

Crone

Sorry I'm late, but if I'm understanding this correctly, without Jackett you'll always have to download things manually, right? Although, you say that it is able to download an episode of Arrow, so maybe I'm just not following why it isn't finding Portlandia for you. Is it because Sonarr only parses the RSS feed from IPT, and only new things show up on there? I guess that would make sense then. Just trying to figure out your procedure out loud for myself.

So the first obvious step would be, why aren't you using Jackett? I've never even heard of it prior to this conversation, so maybe it sucks, or is difficult to use, but I don't know, so tell me why you aren't using it. If you were, I'm assuming this would fix your problem?

If Jackett isn't an option for whatever reason, your next option is just moving/linking old shows by hand. I know that isn't what you're looking for, but how many old shows do you end up getting? If 95% of what you download is new and Sonarr with the RSS feed will work just fine, maybe it is worth that 5% hassle. If you get a lot more old show requests, maybe it isn't worth it. But again, I can't know until you tell me.

As far as the Drone Factory folder, no idea where you got the idea that it was obsolete. It is literally just for putting files already on your computer into a spot so when it checks it says, "Hmm, these are new and I have no idea where they are from, let's try to put them somewhere." It also has a little caution triangle next to it that specifically says "Download client history items that are sorted in the drone factory will be ignored." So that tells you right there that you can't make it the same as your Download folder, which is why you had problems when you made them the same. So you need to get those old shows into the Download folder so it parses them correctly.

The best way to do this would be to add the series in Sonarr yourself (or is this somehow being done automatically with Plex Requests? Unfamiliar with that...if so, ignore the manual part), and make sure the episodes you want are tagged as "monitored" (the little flag is filled in). Without them being monitored it won't work. Now, go to IPT and download the .torrent file and put it into the directory that your Download Client is pointed at. Let it send to Deluge via that directory, don't just import the .torrent directly into Deluge yourself. This will let Sonarr know that it has requested the file so it is looking for it. Again, without that, it isn't going to reliably work. Once it downloads, it should now be in your Download directory that Sonarr checks. Assuming you have it set up correctly, it should then parse and link and move each file correctly (it can take a little time, so don't freak if it doesn't do it instantly).

If that doesn't work, I'm pretty much going to have to see some screenshots and step-by-step directions for what you are doing. But that should work, because that's how I do it when, for example, BTN is down for maintenance and I need to manually download from IPT instead. I use a seedbox and Dropbox instead, but same concept. It works every time for me, so it should for you.

Crone

Something is set up wrong, but without seeing all of your settings I don't know what it could be. I checked some of the ones I've downloaded straight from IPT, thinking perhaps it needed to have a "sent to torrent client" entry for it to know to look for it, but that isn't it because I don't have them either. Which would mean that my suggestion of making sure you let Deluge pick it up from the .torrent folder is superfluous and unnecessary.

I'm assuming those aren't in rar files? Your screenshot has the Compressed Folder Tools highlighted is all, but that might simply be because you selected a rar file further down the list, but just making sure. I know that mine doesn't locate them until they are extracted when I get them from IPT.

Here, I just did the same thing with an episode of Tosh.0 that Sonarr is expecting to get, but isn't on BTN yet. I grabbed it from IPT and sent it directly to my torrent client (not via the directory like I suggested before). This is a screenshot after it downloaded fully to my computer, but before Sonarr had moved it.


A few seconds later it was gone and is now in my History tab, and is in the correct location in the Tosh folder for viewing.

Now, I don't use hard links, so it is possible your problem lies somewhere in there, but I literally just did exactly what you want to do, and it worked fine. So something isn't set up properly on your end. I don't know what it could be without seeing everything on your end, but at least maybe this will give you hope to keep looking.

As an aside, what are the little person-shaped icons to the far right of your pic? I don't have those, so I'm wondering if those might contain a clue.

When you say you are using an extractor plugin, is it making a duplicate file, or is there an existing folder (IPT likes to use individual folders that contain the file or the rar files) and your extractor is pulling it out? Sometimes that 100% shows even when it is just the directory, the file hasn't even been created yet. Sonarr just sees the exact name it is looking for (minus the file extension) so it thinks it is complete, but it really isn't.

If there is a directory still existing with the same name, with or without rar files, that might be screwing it up. I really can't say without every detail of every step, which might not be worth the time if you think you have it sorted out already. I'd love to be more helpful, but I can only guess at this point. If it keeps misbehaving the only thing I can suggest is screenshot every single setting and activity screen and every drive/directory being referenced in those settings.

But I'd probably hold off on that if you think it works ok.

Crone said:

You know that's probably it. The extractor plugin for Deluge just processes the .rar files that the torrent comes in, and those are always in a seperate folder. So the .rar's from IPT are getting auto-extracted into the same directory so there is the IPT folder + the .mkv or whatever type of file with the same name now in the same Downloads folder and Sonarr can't tell the difference.

Setting the extractor plugin to extract to the Drone Folder seems to be working though for it. Just watched it grab a show off of IPT, and everything seemed to work fine. I'll cross my fingers that it'll be fine for a while now.

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Yeah, I would bet that having that directory there is fucking it up. When I download from IPT and have to unrar, I just do it inside the directory it came in, and Sonarr looks inside it, finds it and moves it, and then deletes the folder. It also works exactly the same if the file isn't a rar, it looks inside and finds it, moves it, deletes folder. If you have both outside, that's probably why it isn't working, it keeps checking inside the folder. Can you have that plugin simply extract it within the folder? Or does that screw things up with hardlinks and seeding?

darkmiasma said:

Void

I built a VM Linux Mint instance and followed a guide to load it up with:

Plex Media Server
Deluge
PlexPy
CouchPatato
Sonarr
PlexRequests.NET

Do you still use Whatbox? If so, do you have this all integrated with that?

I'm still horribly new with Linux, so I have to get my NAS drives mounted still.

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I do use Whatbox still, but don't use most of that stuff yet except for Sonarr. Somewhere many pages back, assuming all the pics got migrated over from RR, is an outline of my setup, but essentially I use Sonarr and Dropbox on my home computer to interact with rTorrent and Dropbox on the Whatbox. It isn't perfect, but it works for what I want it to do.

However, I'm looking into doing something similar to what a_skeleton_03 did with a server and hope to eventually get that set up with Sonarr and Dropbox, and Plex and its addons. I'll probably never use CouchPotato as I prefer to download my own choices for quality in movies, and I don't do enough of them where it is a huge hassle to just do it manually.

I have no idea how I'll set it up yet though, as I don't know shit about Linux beyond what the Whatbox tutorials showed. But I'm sure I'll figure it out with help eventually.